This is the place: four fields in the shape of a rough parallelogram. On her left, one part of the closest field is enclosed behind wire mesh. A path runs through long, wet grass towards a gate in the fence. Ahead of her is an open-fronted barn with a caravan parked inside it, a chimney […]

She lay on a sun lounger in the garden, the morning sun wrapping her in its rays and whispering her to sleep. Clear thoughts were transforming into the figures and shadows of dreams. She was about to succumb to the final pull of slumber when a cool darkness blotted out the patterns that had been […]

The car, an old black Vauxhall Corsa – here called an Opel Corsa – was much lower to the ground than she’d expected and she’d landed too heavily in the driver seat. She went to check it was in neutral before turning the key, only to find that the piece indicating the numbers had fallen […]

A wave rolls, like a lumbering seal. The sea is a stretch of grey mounds and I wait for the next one; lazy, easy, barely moving. How I envy it. The water swells like a soft inhalation and yawns up the beach. Sums up Clenton-On-Sea, really. My head’s banging. I got up at the crack […]

October floated like a glacier into town. Abigail remembered the chill from her childhood, but memory alone could never summon its sensate richness: the sawdust-dry air, the biting wind that snaked up your sleeves no matter how you held your arms and the leaves that crunched like brittle insecurities at every step. No form of […]

Sophie Moran is from Dublin and lives in Berlin where she works as a copywriter. She has a BA in English and film studies and an MA in journalism and digital media. She has worked in writing and editing roles since she graduated from university. While the idea of writing fiction is something that has […]

Loree Westron is the author of Missing Words, a Fairlight Moderns novella published on 5 August 2021. Loree lives in Portsmouth. She has previously worked at the local Royal Mail sorting office, an experience that influenced Missing Words. She has an MA in Creative Writing Chichester University and her short stories have placed highly in competitions […]

Debbi Voisey is the author of Only About Love, a Fairlight Moderns novella published on 5 August 2021. Debbi writes flash fictions, short stories, and novels. Her writing has been published in several places online and in print including including Flash Fiction Festival Anthologies, Ellipsis, Litro, Storgy and Visual Verse. She has been longlisted and […]

JT Torres is the author of Taking Flight, a Fairlight Moderns novella published on 8 July 2021. Born in Miami, Florida, JT Torres is of Cuban-American descent. He is an assistant professor of English at Quinnipiac University. Torres combines an MFA in creative writing with a PhD in educational psychology to understand how storytelling often […]

Douglas Bruton is the author of Blue Postcards, a Fairlight Moderns novella published on 8 July 2021. Born in Edinburgh, Douglas spent most of his working life as an English and guidance teacher. Now retired, Douglas continues to reside in Scotland where he writes in his spare time. His writing has been published in various […]